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The Development of the Alternative Black Curriculum, 1890-1940

Countering the Master Narrative

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Authors:
  1. Alana D. Murray

    1. Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD, USA

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  • Focuses on African American women and the critical role they played as key co-creators of the alternative black curriculum for elementary and secondary school students

  • Includes case study of curriculum for the National Training School for Women and Girls with primary source documents of the first, original African American social studies curriculum

  • Uses a critical lens based in black history, educational history, and social studies research to offer a new perspective on the development of the alternative black curriculum

  • Expands the range of actors who influenced the intellectual trends of black educational scholarship during the early twentieth century

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-11

  3. Moving Beyond Biography: Critical Race Theory and the Construction of the Alternative Black Curriculum in Social Studies

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    Pages 13-41

  4. Black Curriculum in Social Studies: A Textual Reading of When Truth Gets a Hearing

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    Pages 43-59

  5. Resisting the Master Narrative: Building the Alternative Black Counter-Canon

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    Pages 61-90

  6. Exploring the Purposes and Foundations of Black Teacher Preparation: 1890–1940

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    Pages 91-106

  7. Dialogical Spaces: Innovative Practices and the Development of the Alternative Black Curriculum in Social Studies, 1890–1940

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    Pages 107-125

  8. Conclusion

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    Pages 127-134

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 135-143
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About this book

This book examines black intellectual thought during from 1890-1940, and its relationship to the development of the alternative black curriculum in social studies. Inquiry into the alternative black curriculum is a multi-disciplinary project; it requires an intersectional approach that draws on social studies research, educational history and black history. Exploring the gendered construction of the alternative black curriculum, Murray considers the impact of Carter G. Woodson and W.E.B. DuBois in creating the alternative black curriculum in social studies, and its subsequent relationship to the work of black women in the field and how black women developed the alternative black curriculum in private and public settings.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD, USA

    Alana D. Murray

About the author

Alana D. Murray is an educator-activist who taught world history and US history in Montgomery County, Maryland public schools for eighteen years.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Development of the Alternative Black Curriculum, 1890-1940

  • Book Subtitle: Countering the Master Narrative

  • Authors: Alana D. Murray

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91418-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91417-6Published: 11 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08249-9Published: 15 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91418-3Published: 26 June 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 143

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Curriculum Studies, History of Education, Early Childhood Education

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